Art Dubai Presents H.M. Naqvi's Home Boy
March 19, 2010, 5:00 p.m.
Art Park, Bidoun Lounge
Dubai
Launch of H.M. Naqvi's Home Boy, followed by a discussion with renowned contemporary artist Faiza Butt.
South Asian Launch (Jan. '10)
March 20-22, 2010
Karachi
March 5, 2010, 6:00 p.m.
Indus Valley School of Arts
Karachi
Official Pakistani launch of Home Boy
February 21, 2010, 6:00 p.m.
Liberty Books (Barbeque Tonight)
Karachi
Reading, Q&A, signing.
February 14, 2010, 6:00 p.m.
The Second Floor
Karachi
"Postcolonial Fictions": Readings & discussion with H.M.Naqvi, Mohammed Hanif, Bina Shah, Kamila & Muneeza Shamsie.
January 27, 2010
Park Hotel
Delhi
"Rocking Delhi":
H.M. Naqvi reads with Kishwar Desai (Witness the Night) and Anita Nair (Lessons in Forgetting),
reading, signing, Q&A, cocktails
Jaipur Literary Festival (Jan. '10)
January 24, 2010, 7:15-7:45p.m.
Music Stage
Slam Poetry Comes to Jaipur
January 25, 2010, 12:00-1:00p.m.
Baithak
Readings by Ameen Merchant & H.M. Naqvi
Introduction by Sadia Shepard
News
"[H. M. Naqvi] is frank and honest, but it is in the depth of his discourse he is most revealing."+ more |
Home Boy makes Huffington Post's Top Ten list for 2009!Review by Anis Shivani + more |
A remarkably engaging novel that delights as it disturbs.Review by John Salvatore + more |
'Home Boy'
is a slam-dunkReview by Carol Memmott, USA Today + more |
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Interview
with Platform Magazine What sparked off Home Boy? |
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Interview with the Brooklyn Rail + more |
Home Alone+ more |
Home Boy scores a home run+ more |
In the Aftermath of 9/11+ more |
The Year's Best+ more |
Ten Questions for H.M. Naqvi + more |
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Interview
with Libas H.M. Naqvi is a typical Leo. |
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Sharp, sleek prose, a tightly wrought structure and a slam poet’s instinct carry this book to the top of the heap.+ more |
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One Word
Celebrity Interview Q: You wrote this book in Cambridge, a town of tremendous affluence, while you lived in a single room on very little money. How did you manage to slog through the years that it took to write the book? A: Pasta (& Ativan). + more |
Home Boy Plus: City Quiz Mr. Naqvi... tells his story with supreme confidence. + more |
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| [Home Boy's] one of the best books we've read all year – a big-hearted, yet unsentimental page-turner that is letter-perfect in its evocation of time and place. You don't need to know much about Pakistan to appreciate Naqvi's tale, only what it feels like to be outside looking in, when 'I will make one cup of tea' sound like the kindest words ever spoken. | |
Rocking
KarachiWhat You Don't Know About Pakistan's Biggest City. + more |
Italian Tour (Fall '10)
Details coming soon.
US Tour (Aug. - Sept. '09)
August 25, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
The Tank
354 W, 45th Street NY, NY
“This is My New York”: Reading, conversation with Jennifer 8 Lee of the NY Times, signing
August 26, 2009, 6:30 p.m.
Borders Bookstore
1801 K St.,
Washington DC
Reading and signing
August 27, 2009, 7:00 p.m.
Robin’s Bookstore
110A South 13th Street,
Philadelphia, PA
Reading and signing
August 31, 2009, 6:30 p.m.
The Tenement Museum
108 Orchard Street, NY
Reading, conversation with Sadia Shepard (Author of The Girl From Foreign), signing
September 1, 2009, 7:00 p.m.
Nuyorican Poets Cafe
Slam meets Prose: NY Slam champion Noel Jones and H.M. Naqvi whip out The Good Stuff
September 3, 2009, 7:00 p.m.
The Harvard Bookstore
1256 Massachusetts Ave.,
Cambridge, MA 02138
Bookstore reading and signing
September 10, 2009, 5:30 p.m.
South Asia Initiative at Harvard University
Thompson Room,
Barker Center,
12 Quincy St.,
Cambridge MA 02138
Reading, discussion with Professor Sugato Bose, Q&A
September 11, 2009, 5:30 p.m.
Brown University Bookstore
244 Thayer St, Providence RI
Reading, discussion, Q&A , book-signing
September 13, 2009, 11:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Brooklyn Book Festival
Borough Hall Courtroom (209 Joralemon Street) (Tickets Required)
1:00 p.m. Out of Step. Readings from three acclaimed novels that follow their
characters through the cultural enclaves that form, challenge and sometimes dictate their lives.
Featuring Colson Whitehead (Sag Harbor), H.M. Naqvi (Home Boy),
Matthew Aaron Goodman (Hold Love Strong)
and Achy Obejas (Ruins). Moderated by Brigid Hughes, A Public Space.
September 14, 2009, 8:00 p.m.
Asian American Writers Workshop
Reading with Moustafa Bayoumi and Sarah Husain, discussion, book-signing
September 15, 2009, 6:30 p.m.
Asia Society
725 Park Avenue, NY NY 10021
Reading, conversation with Akhil Sharma (author of An Obedient Father), and signing
